Milwaukee Brewers vs Minnesota Twins
May 9, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Milwaukee Brewers 9, Minnesota Twins 6

Milwaukee Brewers ab   r   h rbi
Molitor 3b 4 1 1 0
Yount cf 5 2 3 0
Surhoff c 5 1 1 0
Brock 1b 2 2 2 2
Deer lf 3 2 2 4
Braggs rf 4 1 2 2
Meyer dh 4 0 0 0
Gantner 2b 4 0 1 1
Sveum ss 4 0 0 0
Birkbeck p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
  Crim p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 9 12 9
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 2 3 0
Herr 2b 5 2 2 0
Puckett cf 5 0 2 4
Hrbek 1b 4 1 2 2
Gaetti 3b 5 0 0 0
Larkin dh 4 0 0 0
Bush rf 4 0 0 0
Laudner c 3 1 3 0
Gagne ss 3 0 0 0
  Moses ph 1 0 0 0
  Newman ss 0 0 0 0
Lea p 0 0 0 0
  Berenguer p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
  Best p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 12 6
Milwaukee 000 100 3509120
Minnesota 003 010 2006120
  Milwaukee Brewers IP H R ER BB SO
Birkbeck   4.1 8 4 4 1 1
  Jones  W (1-0) 3.2 3 2 2 1 0
  Crim  SV (2) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
12
6
6
3
2
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Lea   6.0 6 3 3 3 5
  Berenguer   1.0 2 3 3 1 1
  Reardon  L (0-2) 1.0 3 3 3 0 1
  Best   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
9
9
4
7

  E–None.  DP–Milwaukee 1, Minnesota 2.  2B–Milwaukee Yount (5,off Lea); Braggs (6,off Berenguer), Minnesota Gladden 2 (12,off Birkbeck,off Jones); Puckett (9,off Birkbeck).  3B–Minnesota Puckett (1,off Birkbeck).  HR–Milwaukee Deer (6,8th inning off Reardon 2 on, 0 out), Minnesota Hrbek (8,7th inning off Jones 1 on, 2 out).  SB–Deer (4,2nd base off Lea/Laudner); Yount (3,2nd base off Best/Laudner); Herr (5,2nd base off Birkbeck/Surhoff).  WP–Berenguer (3).  BK–Lea (2).  U-HP–John Shulock, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Jim McKean, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–3:28.  A–21,541.
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